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Eric Spiegelman

Summary of the New Los Angeles Taxi Reform Measures of 2022

Today the Los Angeles City Council passed a taxi industry reform package that was eight years in the making. The text below is a memo I…

Feb 15, 2022

Summary of the New Los Angeles Taxi Reform Measures of 2022

Feb 15, 2022

Eric Spiegelman

One Way to Put Taxis Back in the Horseshoe at LAX

Around the same time that airport officials briefed me on the plan for what came to be called LAXit, an advertising display company began…

Feb 17, 2020

One Way to Put Taxis Back in the Horseshoe at LAX

Feb 17, 2020

Eric Spiegelman

Regulating Taxicab Safety by Algorithm: How to Build a Safetybot

By now you’ve probably heard about “bots,” those little programs that run automated, repetitive and somewhat sophisticated tasks on various…

Jul 20, 2016

Regulating Taxicab Safety by Algorithm: How to Build a Safetybot

Jul 20, 2016

Eric Spiegelman

Greetings from the Taxibot Future of Los Angeles

Friday, April 15th, 2044. I wake up and go about my normal set of morning rituals, which end with me dressed and clean and ready to go to…

Apr 15, 2016

Apr 15, 2016

Eric Spiegelman

Regulating the Quality (and Equality) of Taxi, Uber and Lyft Service by Algorithm

Two years ago, a friend of mine received an anonymous tip on a website he edited. The tipster, who claimed to be an Uber driver, alleged…

Apr 12, 2016

Regulating the Quality (and Equality) of Taxi, Uber and Lyft Service by Algorithm

Apr 12, 2016

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Regulating the Safety of Taxicabs and Uber and Lyft Cars by Algorithm

A few months ago I plugged a device called “Automatic” into the diagnostics port hidden under my car’s steering wheel, and it’s been…

Mar 1, 2016

Regulating the Safety of Taxicabs and Uber and Lyft Cars by Algorithm

Mar 1, 2016

Eric Spiegelman

10 Reasons Why Los Angeles Should Make Taxi GPS Data Public

Taxi GPS data proved that new bike lanes and added pedestrian spaces improved traffic flow in Manhattan.

Aug 17, 2014

Aug 17, 2014

Eric Spiegelman

Eric Spiegelman

President of the Los Angeles Taxicab Commission. Opinions expressed here are personal to me and do not reflect the opinion of the Commission as a whole.

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